Re: X11 in Tiger... Vis5D
Re: X11 in Tiger... Vis5D
- Subject: Re: X11 in Tiger... Vis5D
- From: John Davidorff Pell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 18:36:23 -0700
On 1 May 2005, at 20:04, Ted Mansell wrote:
To John Pell: can you share any details about getting the Xorg
6.8.2 working on Tiger? I got it compiled (with help from my G5
panther system), but X11 does not start at all.
I strongly suggest using a recent CVS snapshot. I currently have
6.8.99.4. There have been numerous improvements to X, and
specifically to the Darwin server since 6.8.2. As another poster
mentioned, the 6.8.2 release fails to build but does not tell you so,
basically resulting in a partial installation that does not work.
Do you have an X11.app or XDarwin.app? Is it the one from the
X11.pkg, or are you sure that it was built from Xorg source? If it
was not built from Xorg source, then it is just a dummy with no
server behind it (well, it is even if you did build it from Xorg
source, but there is a real server that it calls). If you moved/
deleted the X11.pkg installed /usr/X11R6, then X11.app will not work
until a complete build of Xorg takes place (unless you put back the
old /usr/X11R6).
Walkthrough to get and compile Xorg cvs snapshot:
Go to http://xorg.freedesktop.org/snapshots/
Download the highest numbered file, or 6.8.99.4 if you want something
that I personally can verify works. :-)
Copy xc/config/cf/xorgsite.def to /xc/config/cf/host.def
Optional: Follow instructions at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/
index.php?func=detail&aid=1032282&group_id=18034&atid=318034 (for
X11.app)
type `make World >World.log 2>&1 &'
type `tail -f World.log'
in another window type `tail -f World.log | grep Error'
If the 2nd window shows up with anything that looks like an error (it
will have a few non-error lines as there are files named Error.*),
then something went wrong. Hopefully, nothing will! :-)
If nothing went wrong, type `sudo make install install.man' and you
should be set.
Let me know how it goes!
JP
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